Therma

Therma or Thermē (Ancient Greek: Θέρμα, Θέρμη) was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or Corinthians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia (which was later incorporated into Macedon), situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegean Sea, the Thermaic Gulf. The city was built amidst mosquito-infested swampland, and its name derives from the Greek thérmē/thérma, "(malarial) fever". Therma was later renamed Thessalonica by Cassander. By that time the port of the previous capital of Macedonia, Pella, had begun silting up, so Cassander took advantage of the deep-water port to the northwest of Therma to expand the settlement.

A Cassander Coin, Greek Stamp for the foundation of the city of Thessaloniki , 315 BC.

The site of Therma is tentatively located 3 miles (5 km) south of modern Thessalonike.[1][2]
See also

List of ancient Greek cities

References

Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 50, and directory notes accompanying.

Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books, with Introduction [1] Reginald Walter Macan
The Letters to the Thessalonians [2] by Gene L. Green
From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City [3] By Richard Allan Tomlinson
Hidryma Meletōn Chersonēsou tou Haimou (Thessalonikē, Greece)[4]